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		everfrustrated 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival t... It's also the foundation of the US economy. Look up the cotton gin patent some time. And the early days of Hollywood.

mrguyorama 5 months ago [–]

And textile production and the industrialization of New England.

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